Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Lists/Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook XML and XMLspy

[Dave Pawson <daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 10:17 18/12/2001 -0800, Bernd Kreimeier wrote:

>Maybe it's just me, but I find this page
>   http://www.docbook.org/mailinglist/index.html
>
>and the distinctions on it slightly confusing. It might benefit from
>listing concrete examples, e.g.:
>
>    docbook-apps:
>        3rd party editors
>        parsers and parser bugs?
>        backends and backend bugs?
>        installs and distributions (e.g. RedHat, Win2K)?
>
>    docbook
>        DTD internals and bugs?
>        stylesheet internals and bugs?
>        feature requests?
>
>A common convention is "user" vs. "developer" list. When it comes to
>questions relating to day-to-day use of DocBook, is this "applied" and
>thus docbooks-apps? Or "general DocBook questions"?
>
>Incidentally, this
>   http://www.docbook.org/mailinglist/guidelines.html
>is missing?

Hi Bernd,

Docbook is 'strange' / different in that respect.
The division is markup verses styling.

I think your point is well made about better descriptions.

Regards DaveP